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Teaching Sex : The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century
Teaching Sex The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century Author:Jeffrey P. Moran Teaching Sex takes us on a fascinating ride through America's sexual mores: from a time when young men were warned about the crippling effects of masturbation, to the belief that schools could and should train adolescents in proper courtship and parenting techniques, to the reemergence of sexual abstention brought by the AIDS crisis. "An engro... more »ssing chronicle and thoughtful analysis of government-sanctioned programs designed for a captive audience of high school students … Moran … takes educators to task for not taking into account the interest of those they purport to be teaching. His book is a must read." —Paul Engleman, Playboy "Teaching Sex offers an impressively lucid and balanced history of sex education and related matters in twentieth-century American life. It fills a large gap among studies of American cultural and social history." —James T. Patterson, author of Great Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974« less